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What air traffic controllers make
Typical
$114,000
Lowest reported
$53,000
Top of the scale
$221,000
Job Bank's national median is $54.88 an hour, about $114,000 a year full time. Nav Canada, the company that runs air traffic control in Canada, publishes its own 2026 scales: $104,258 to $207,450 for tower controllers and $143,513 to $207,450 for area control centre controllers, with shift and location premiums on top.